RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2003-2007)

 Bošković, R., TOBUTT, K.R., BATLLE, I., DUVAL, H., MARTINEZ-GOMEZ, P. & GRADZIEL, T.M. (2003).  Stylar ribunucleases in almond: correlation with and prediction of incompatibility genotypes. Plant Breeding 122:70-76.

 CLARKE, J.B. & TOBUTT, K.R. (2003).  Development and characterisation of polymorphic microsatellites from Prunus avium ‘Napoleon’.  Molecular Ecology Notes 3:578-580.

 De Cuyper, B., Sonneveld, T. & Tobutt, K.R. (2005).  Determining self-incompatibility genotypes in Belgian wild cherries. Molecular Ecology 14:945-955

 HADONOU A.M., SARGENT D.J., WALDEN, R. and SIMPSON, D.W. (2004). Characterisation of Fragaria simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers. Acta Horticulturae 649, 99-102

 HADONOU, A.M., SARGENT, D.J., WILSON, F., JAMES, C.M. and SIMPSON, D.W. (2004) Development of microsatellite markers in Fragaria, their use in genetic diversity analysis and their potential for genetic linkage mapping. Genome 47, 1-14.

 JAMES, C.M., WILSON, F., HADONOU, A.M. & TOBUTT, K.R. (2003). Isolation and characterisation of polymorphic microsatellites in diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.) for mapping, diversity studies and clone identification. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:171-173.

MARCHESE, A., TOBUTT, K.R., RAIMONDO, A., MOTISI, A., BOŠKOVIĆ, R.I., CLARKE, J.B. & CARUSO, T., (2007).  Morphological characteristics, microsatellite fingerprinting and determination of incompatibility genotypes of sicilian sweet cherry cultivars.  Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 82:41-48.

 Marchese, A., Tobutt, K.R. & Caruso, T. (2005).  Molecular characterisation of Sicilian Prunus persica cultivars using microsatellites.  Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology 80:121-129.

 NIER, S., SIMPSON, D.W., TOBUTT, K.R. and SARGENT, D.J. (2006). Construction of a genetic linkage map of an interspecific diploid Fragaria BC1 mapping population (F. vesca 815 x [F. vesca 815 x F. viridis 903]) and its comparison to the Fragaria reference map (FVxFN).  Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 81:645–650.

 Ortega, E., Bošković, R.I., SARGENT, D.J. & TOBUTT, K.R., (2006).  Analysis of S-RNase alleles of almond (Prunus dulcis): characterization of new sequences, resolution of synonyms and evidence of intragenic recombination.  Molecular Genetics and Genomics 276:413–426.

 Ortega, E., Sutherland, B.G., Dicenta, G., Bošković, R. & Tobutt, K.R. (2005).  Determination of incompatibility genotypes in almond using first and second intron consensus primers:  detection of new S alleles and correction of reported S genotypes.  Plant Breeding 124:188-196.

 Ridout, M.S., Xu, X.-M. & Tobutt, K.R. (2005).  Single locus gametophytic incompatability in autotetraploids.  Journal of Heredity 96:430-433

 SARGENT D.J., RYS A., NIER S., SIMPSON D.W., TOBUTT K.R., (2007).  The development and mapping of functional markers in Fragaria and their transferability and potential for mapping in other genera.  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114:373-384.

 SARGENT, D.J., CLARKE, J., SIMPSON, D.W., TOBUTT, K.R.,  ARÚS, P., MONFORT, A., VILANOVA, S., DENOYES‑ROTHAN, B., ROUSSEAU, M., FOLTA, K.M., BASSIL, N.V. and BATTEY N.H. (2006). An enhanced microsatellite map of diploid Fragaria. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 112:1349-1359.

 SARGENT, D.J., BATTEY, N.H., WILKINSON, M.J. and SIMPSON, D.W. (2006). The detection of QTL associated with vegetative and reproductive traits in diploid Fragaria: A preliminary study.  Acta Horticulturae 708:474-474.

SARGENT, D.J., DAVIS, T.M., TOBUTT, K.R., WILKINSON, M.J., BATTEY, N.H., & SIMPSON, D.W. (2004).  A genetic linkage map of microsatellite, gene specific and morphological markers in diploid Fragaria.  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 109:1385-1391.

SARGENT, D.J., GEIBEL, M,. HAWKINS, J.A., WILKINSON M.J., BATTEY N.H. & SIMPSON D.W. (2004). Morphological traits in diploid Fragaria for the study of the genetic basis of phenotypic differences between species. Annals of Botany 94:787-796.

SARGENT D.J., HADONOU A.M., WILKINSON M.J., BATTEY N.H., HAWKINS, J.A. & SIMPSON D.W. (2004). Cross‑species amplification and phylogenetic reconstruction using Fragaria microsatellite primers. Acta Horticulturae 649:87-92.

SARGENT, D.J., HADONOU, A.M. and SIMPSON, D.W. (2003). Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers from Fragaria viridis, a wild diploid strawberry. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:550-552.

 Sonneveld, T., Tobutt, K. R., Vaughan, S. P. & Robbins, T. P. (2005).  Loss of pollen-S function in two self-compatible selections of Prunus avium is associated with a deletion/mutation of an S haplotype-specific F-Box gene.  The Plant Cell 17:1-15.

 SONNEVELD, T., TOBUTT, K.R. & ROBBINS, T.P. (2003). Allele-specific PCR detection of sweet cherry self-incompatibility (S) alleles S₁ to S₁₆ using consensus and allele-specific primers. Theoretical & Applied Genetics 107:1059-1070.

 ŠURBANOVSKI, N., TOBUTT, K.R., KONSTANTINOVIC, M., MAKSIMOVIC, V., SARGENT, D.J., STEVANOVIC, V., ORTEGA, E., BOŠKOVIĆ, R, (2007).  Self-incompatibility of Prunus tenella and evidence that reproductively isolated species of Prunus have different SFB alleles coupled with an identical S-RNase allele.  The Plant Journal, accepted.

 TOBUTT, K.R., Bošković, r., cEROVIĆ, r., SONNEVELD, T. & RUŽIC, D. (2004).  Identification of incompatibility alleles in the tetraploid species sour cherry.  Theoretical & Applied Genetics 108:775-785.

 VAUGHAN, S.P., RUSSELL, K., SARGENT, D.J. & TOBUTT, K.R., (2006).  Isolation of S-locus F-box alleles in Prunus avium and their application in a novel method to determine self-incompatibility genotype.  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 112:856-866.